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===UPDATE 3/23/11===

Some more information has come in on the wire about this song and actually a little bit more insight on the song Were All Women too; which will be appearing on the new EP Party All Goddamn Night. Anyway, Take My Time was put together just outside of Tulsa Oklahoma with Taylor Hanson on vocals, Andrew playing acoustic guitar, and Dan Haseltine on the electric piano. Once the song was written, a studio version was recorded (as archived below) with Andrew W.K. on bass and some hand percussion. It was all written and recorded in a single day. The same methods were used while writing Were All Women only on a different day, it was in collaboration with Peter Yanowitz. This quasi band camp (Hanson Fools Banquet) lasted for four days, which if you do the math leaves two other songs Andrew participated in that are still out there somewhere waiting for you to find them.

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I betcha didn’t know Andrew W.K. collaborated with Taylor Hanson (from Hanson) & Dan Haseltine (from Jars of Clay) for a song called Take My Time?! Its unclear who wrote what but all three are credited for writing the music and lyrics in 2007 at the Fools Banquet. That said, Taylor Hanson is the one who performs it hence, he’s known for the song.

Take My Time Archived

Here are the lyrics:

I’ve never had a true obsession
but that’s what you turned out to be
spent hours reeling
The days you’re stealing
Well, they might be the death of me
take me alive
take my breath, my heartbeat inside
If you let me I’ll give you
All that’s worth taking
Take my time
I’ve never needed conversation
To fill an empty afternoon
Your touch it wakes me
Your love it makes me
Every moment with you ends too soon
take me alive
take my breath, my heartbeat inside
If you let me I’ll give you
All that’s worth taking
Take my time
oh won’t you take my time

10. The McLaughlin Groove

Is a play on words for McLaughlin Group, a 1/2 hour TV program broad-casted in the United States. The lyrics of the song are based on actual off-hand comments made by the commentators of the show. It’s completely nonsensical, which makes for perfect content of an AWK song!

9. Party Party Party

Created for the Aqua Teen Hunger Force TV show. This humorous parody of the familiar Party theme associated with AWK is highlighted in its lyrics O Party Party Party, parties make me farty, I gotta take an antacid, so I can keep on party. After the first couple of listens it’s pretty catchy! Gotta love the Bach-esque piano outro.

8. Hearing What I Said

This one slid under the radar due to Cartoon Network pulling the plug on the correlating music video from YouTube just a day after it was posted. This was probably PR damage control due to the out-cry from CN network fans against CNs new CNREAL programming change. I could care less about CN. But hey! us AWK fans got a music video and a song out of it, right?! The song is actually a rendition of Not Going To Bed from the CCWBW album.

7. I Was Born To Love You

If you haven’t heard of this one its because its brand-new! The new E-Single from Japan is a cover of the Freddie Mercury’s song of the same name. Its Andrews latest release in a marketing blitz to build up to his upcoming EP (March 30th) and LP (sometime later this year hopefully). Andrew really belts it out in this one An Amazing Feeling, Coming Through!!!!

6. It Just Got Hotter

This was created in 2007 as the theme song for the Arizona hockey team Sun Dogs. Its a rendition of Fun Night from the I Get Wet album. Though it was primarily released from the official AWK website, what many people don’t know is that there was an actual promo CD released for it as well. It also included the track You Will Remember Tonight on it. I love the way the song ends in this version Because-It-Just-Got-HOTTER.

5. Steev Mike Radio Commercial

Though not technically an actual song but more of a promo/advert/commercial. Ranked #5 because this will undoubtedly raise an eyebrow at the oddities found in the track. Not only does it contain Andrew W.K. stating he’s Steev Mike (an Island Records recording artist) but it also has alternate versions of Its Time To Party, She Is Beautiful and others. Hey, its mixed together pretty well too!

4. The Santos Cheer

Though it has no official Andrew W.K. name credited to it, the night clubs theme song was obviously influenced/created by him. What you may not have known is that the Santos Party House Blog once offered the tracks within the song to competitors to create the best mix of the song for a prize. It’s no wonder why this tune is one of the most popular B-Sides on this site. The news must have gotten out about this base-thumper and the catchy sing-a-long chorus! (if you have those individual tracks let me know!)

3. Kit Kat Song

Short and sweet, but what a regular song can only do in 2:30 this song does it in 30 seconds flat! The highs and lows, it’s all slam packed into this one. Dare I say way better than the original Kit Kat jingle?! I know at least 930 people that would agree with me.

2. Mickey Mouse Club March

Wow. Ranked #2 for a reason. Words can’t really explain it, just listen to it.

1. Fang (Kiba)

For whatever reason, I never hear anybody talking about this song. Which is why I’ve chosen it as the #1 spot for the most underrated-unknown song by AWK. Kiba is a Japan-only single and this English version entitled Fang really packs a punch. While collaborating with Marty Friedman, Andrew’s lyrical inspiration on this track may not have been rivaled since The Wolf (Fang (Kiba) lyrics here). Enjoy!

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We’ve already achieved our goal in archiving all the audio that was ever on AWKShare.com. And now, due to some fortunate events well be able to release almost all the video that was ever archived there as well!

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BREAKING NEWS: Know the results of Cartoon Network Hall of Game Awards airing Friday, February 25th @7pm, RIGHT NOW!

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In addition see footage of a never before seen interview with Andrew W.K. on Cartoon Network! Includes a stunt by Robbie Maddison.

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Find Andrew W.K. images @ the wireimage.com website.

Spoilers Below: Highlight text to see results

The show, hosted by skating legend Tony Hawk, honored the best in sports over the past year – but certainly wasn’t your typical awards ceremony.   Featuring performance by Travie McCoy and Far East Movement, the show honored Dwight Howard with the “All-Pro Class Clown” award; Ryan Sheckler with the “Alti-Dude” award; the NY Yankees & the Boston Red Sox with the “Best Foes Forever” award and many others.   Kobe Bryant was accepted a special honor – KING OF THE COURT award, which was presented by George Lopez.

This has been an AndrewWKMusic.com Exclusive!

The time has come.

With collaboration from Holly of the legendary fan-site Dontstopthenoise.com were now working on the IIIrd non-profit fan-made-tribute-CD!!!!!! The concept is simple, we need fans to submit their tracks! You can NOW upload your work using the uploader tool here or you can submit tracks to awkmusic@gmail.com. Remember to include your name with the track title so you can get credit on the CD!

Rules? There are no rules for submission! If you haven’t already listened to the first two albums; When In Doubt, Wolf It Out and When In Doubt, Wolf It Out II check them out for some inspiration. You’ll notice the various types of tracks include:

1. Fan-made AWK cover songs
2. Fan-made remixes of AWK songs
3. Original songs from fans that fall under the Party Rock genre

However, we are encouraging everyone to branch out a little and try some of the newer songs that have been released since I Get Wet. It’ll get boring if we have ten different versions of Party Hard, ya know?! Check out the Discography or B-Sides page for more ideas.

While the track list is being built well be compiling and finalizing a CD version for all to download freely. Then, visitors will be able to vote on their favorite song that PARTIED the most and one lucky winner will win a prize pack from AndrewWKMusic.com! Not to mention YOUR WORK will surely be heard by AWK himself and thousands of fans! Why are we doing this? FOR FUN!

(Thanks to Nick Sheehan for the cover art)

BREAKING NEWS! We now have album art and a name to Andrew’s brand new EP, “Party All Goddamn Night”. It ships March 30th 2011 in Japan. A release date in America is still unconfirmed. A full length album is expected later this year.

– Thoughts –

If the expected rumors of an American release are true than it should bring many unique qualities to this release. Yes, its true we’ve enjoyed many additional releases of AWK music since The Wolf way back in 2003, but each release seems to have had some type of condition (annoyingly I might add) attached to it especially to us Americans. Sadly, this is probably due to Andrews various legal troubles he’s dealt with throughout his career. To recap here is some of the history behind Andrew W.K.s discography.

Andrews 3rd studio album Close Calls With Brick Walls was released in 2006, but only in Asia. The Japan Covers were released exclusively to Asia in 2008, but c’mon they were J-Pop cover songs. A Wild Pear was a split 7″ for Canada in 2009, also covers. 2009 saw another Japan-only album, this time from the Gundam franchise, more covers. 55 Cadillac was released in America but is not considered in the Party Rock style we usually associate AWK with, also the album was probably created more as a legal victory than anything else. We Got A Groove was a split 7″ on a Volcom label, it was perhaps the first exclusively released song (Party Rock-style) in America since The Wolf! However, it was only one track on vinyl and for a long time was only available by joining Volcom’s vinyl club like $30.00 if you wanted one song?!?! A collaborated Single, Kiba was released in 2010, to Japan only. Vagabond was technically released in the UK. The dual release of Close Calls With Brick Walls/Mother of Mankind was A) a re-release and B) a B-sides/Anthology type of album. I Was Born To Love You was just released as E-Single, a Japan-only cover song.

Don’t get me wrong, I’ve enjoyed every single one of these releases thoroughly but sometimes knowing about the added baggage associated with each release is sometimes cumbersome as a listener and as a fan. I sometimes wish I was naive to it all so I could enjoy it without the added weight. That said, to hope for a new studio album released in the artists native country (without cover songs, re-releases, splits or heavy collaborations) isn’t too wild of an idea is it?

Soooo to me this release is EXCITING and seems different in many ways. It is as if it has no bloated legal baggage and no strings attached it. It will be the first American EP released in 11 years (the two prior being AWKGOJ and Party Til You Puke, both 2000). My prediction is that it will usher in a new era of Andrew W.K. and a benchmark of what can be expected for the near future. GET READY TO PARTY 2011!!!

Here is the full AMA of the Andrew W.K. 4chan Q & A. Check out the original full discussion in this saved screenshot.

Anonymous ## PARTY HARD

We hope in the future there is another Andrew W.K. 4chan AMA!

AWKArchive.com is pretty much a sister-site to this one, its goal is the same as ours: to archive AWK, duh!  Recently they’ve done some major additions, especially to their Press section. I highly suggest checking out their Recent Additions! Tons of interviews are included! The official archive is a major asset to any AWK fan and we value our relationship with them! PARTY HARD!